"No, I have a lot of those things anyway, you can just eat them."

Sheng Jiaojiao sat on a wooden stake, watching Tan Ji help her work with peace of mind, watching Tan Ji's smooth movements, just chopping a piece of wood, feeling like she was dancing a big knife.

She smiled again:

"If you let others know that the future general is here to chop wood for me, I don't know what those military masters under your command will think."

Tan Ji glanced at her again, seeing her smiling face, he lowered his eyes slightly, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but bend.

He didn't know if he could be a general, but Sheng Jiaojiao seemed to have full confidence in him.

"Ah, I'll get you some water to drink."

Sheng Jiaojiao seemed to remember something, picked up her skirt and got up, turned around and walked through the grove, and went into the backyard to fetch water for Tan Ji.

went around to the stove house again and took a few apples for Tan Ji.

The embroidery lady is still doing embroidery work in the hall, and the old lady Qi and the big girl Qi are in the hall and do it with the embroidery girl.

The Qi family had never invited an embroidery girl before, so the old lady Qi and the eldest girl Qi were quite awkward, and they didn't dare to make demands on the embroidery girl.

This embroidery girl from Nanjun is soft-spoken, and sometimes asks how to make clothes for Qi Zhang, and the expressions of Mrs. Qi and Miss Qi are sneering.

A sense of helplessness.

When Tan Ji came, he heard Qi Ju say that Sheng Jiaojiao was in the grove in the backyard of the Qi family, so for fear of causing misunderstanding among others, he didn't go to the main gate of the Qi family, and directly took a detour, climbed over a dirt mountain, and arrived in the small forest outside the backyard of the Qi family.

So the Qi family didn't know he was coming.

When Sheng Jiaojiao secretly brought the clay pot and apples over, Tan Ji had already chopped the wood, and he took out the knife he carried with him and sharpened the thorns on the wooden strips one by one.

"Take a break."

Stepping on the sparse grass, Sheng Jiaojiao sat on a fresh tree stump, took out a pottery bowl, and poured a bowl of water for Tan Ji.

When he came over, he sat down on the stump in the distance of Sheng Jiaojiao, and took a sip of water with a bowl.

The sweet water entered his throat, and Tan Ji's brows stretched a little.

Immediately, he frowned slightly and asked:

"Your family is not going to talk to your brother about this?"

"What?"

Sheng Jiaojiao turned her head and looked over an empty tree stump beside her to Tan Ji.

He raised his eyes and looked at the grove around him, and said:

"The nobleman intends to win over, but the nobleman's mansion let you buy so many trees, so this matter is settled?"

"Oh, I asked my eldest aunt to find the tree that Chaozong bought from Chaozong, and I'm afraid that he won't oppress us."

Sheng Jiaojiao felt that there was nothing to say in the face of Tan Ji, so she looked at the gray sky above her head, and the sparse branches dotted in the sky, and said:

"When the gods fight, what will happen to mortals? My brother is just a small battalion commander in Zhishou County, how dare he follow the nobles to do big things? I don't want them to think that our family is attached to the nobles, I want our family to be our family, and the nobles live in the clouds. ”

Tan Ji stopped drinking water, clasped the bowl with two fingers, and turned his head to look at Sheng Jiaojiao who was sitting in front of him, his eyes were dark, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Sheng Jiaojiao couldn't see the light in his eyes, only dragged her cheeks with her hands, and continued:

"Did the one who came from the nest also give a gift to your family?"

didn't get an answer, Sheng Jiaojiao turned around again, and finally simply sat sideways on the stump, and asked again,

"Have you ever been courted by a nobleman?"

"Yes."

Tan Ji nodded slightly, saw Sheng Jiaojiao frowning, and said:

"I just asked him to take the gift back."

It's like something Tan Ji would do.

Sheng Jiaojiao nodded and said with satisfaction:

"That's it, don't get close to the abolished prince, there are more people staring at him in the imperial capital now, if you don't do it, you and my eldest brother will be angry, knowing that the abolished prince can't be allowed to control the military power, so he will directly send two teams of killers to slaughter the Tan family and the Qi family."

Wasn't this what happened in my last life?

Otherwise, Yin Ze has two women, one is still a wife, and the other is just a flat wife, why did they only take advantage of Yin Ze to accompany his wife back to his hometown and slaughter Sheng Jiaojiao's entire village?

Why don't you move your wife's side?

It's more about letting Qi Zhang live and grow up in the army, and the military power will be controlled by Yin Ze in the future.

It's a pity that those people who live in the imperial capital still missed the relationship between Tan Ji and Qi Zhang.

He and Qi Zhang have been brothers since childhood, Qi Zhang is dead, and Sheng Jiaojiao is Tan Ji's responsibility.

In the thrilling life of his previous life, Tan Ji never betrayed Sheng Jiaojiao, and with him, Sheng Jiaojiao mastered Daze's military power.

Unshakable military power.

Tan Ji sat on the stump, lowered his head and took a sip of water, and said in a low voice:

"I didn't think about it."

He just doesn't like to jump into the chaos of power struggles.

Chao came to the door of his house, and reported that he was ordered by a nobleman to give gifts, but Tan Ji didn't even let him enter the courtyard door, and directly asked his aunt to refuse both people and gifts.

He will not be like Sheng Jiaojiao, twisting and turning, making the nobles feel that they have won over Qi Zhang, and making the world feel that the Qi family has been bullied by the nobles.

It seems that no one has been offended, but in fact, the intention is far-reaching and intriguing.

Tan Ji has a hard personality, pursues strength all his life, and doesn't want to waste time on this kind of useless interpersonal relationship, if he survives on the battlefield, he will accumulate enough military merits and grow into an unshakable existence in the army.

At that time, even if he offended these nobles, they would have to try their best to win him over, instead of finding fault and offending him.

If he can't survive on the battlefield, no matter how he clings to the nobles, it's meaningless.

"Then you have to think about it from now on."

Sheng Jiaojiao raised her head, looked at the sky above her head, and said quietly:

"When a tree grows to the sun, isn't it a man? But all living beings, who would have thought that the higher you go, the more you will think and think, the more meticulous, the more cautious, one careless, all will lose. ”

She knows Tan Ji's character, Tan Ji in her previous life, it is because of such a character that the angry royalists and concubines are itching.

They tried their best to be gentle with Tan Ji and win him over, but Tan Ji stayed motionless in the Hou Party, if Sheng Jiaojiao is the summary of the interests of the Hou Party, then Tan Ji is the foundation of the Hou Party.

As long as he doesn't move, the Hou Party will be as stable as a rock, and the situation in the future will be turbulent.

So Tan Ji supported Sheng Jiaojiao, Sheng Jiaojiao also protected Tan Ji, she let him fight with peace of mind, and did not let him be slandered by any hooks, all the invisible knives and hidden guns, Sheng Jiaojiao who was standing on a high place was playing with people, and they all helped Tan Ji block.

But in this life, Sheng Jiaojiao has no way to protect him, she will not be the queen, and she will not have the power of a party.

If Tan Ji wants to climb up and climb to the position in his previous life, in addition to his strength, he must be cautious, cautious, and cautious.

Tan Ji didn't speak, he looked at Sheng Jiaojiao, when she raised her head, there was an elegant arc around her neck, as if he used the most optimized route to shoot the arc of the bow and arrow.

It's beautiful.

Coming back to his senses, Tan Ji lowered his eyes and said in a low voice:

"When we come out to march and fight, we all hang our heads on our belts, and everything that has nothing to do with fighting is consuming us, so we don't want to focus on these struggles for power and profit, and your brother thinks the same way."

"That's why you don't take a wife?"

Sheng Jiaojiao held her cheeks, and with a pair of clear eyes, she looked directly at Tan Ji.

Marrying a wife and having children, for Tan Ji, is also something that has nothing to do with fighting, right?

She was very curious, because Tan Ji had never been married in her previous life.

Seeing that Tan Ji was just drinking water and not talking again, Sheng Jiaojiao sat up straight, waved her hand, and said:

"Don't worry, your head will always be, all the time, so don't worry, say goodbye, find a good girl, from now on, you have to be kind to yourself."

Tan Ji looked at Sheng Jiaojiao, she said nothing at all, as if she regarded him as . Own people like that.

It's not a brother, it's not a friend, it's my own people.

He opened his mouth, his sword eyebrows slightly raised, as if he was thinking, just about to speak.

Sheng Jiaojiao suddenly approached him, she hugged her arms and knees, and her face was like a flower.

"Tan Ji, you deserve a good girl."

These words made Tan Ji's heart move, and because he was drunk that day, he suddenly churned out again because he was drunk and faced with Sheng Jiaojiao.

He slowly twisted his eyebrows, and looked at Sheng Jiaojiao with dark eyes.

He has a sharper intuition than the average soldier, but all intuition has a source.

Whether a person is good or evil, can he talk to him, can he not talk to him, and what kind of purpose he has, Tan Ji knows at a glance.

Only his intuition about Sheng Jiaojiao, it feels like there is no source.

From the very beginning, she made it clear that he was a person on her front.

He had to obey her, not betray her, and she gave him something that she never thought would get anything in return, like a reward for him after careful selection.

Anything he did for her, she took it for granted, even if he said thank you on the surface, he was never grateful from the bottom of his heart, as if he did things for her, and it was right.

But she is very good to him, and everything is to think of him first, and then to Qi Zhang.

For example, the book that recorded the customs and customs of the subject country and the secrets of the royal family, she gave it to him, but did not give it to Qi Zhang.

She was sheltering him, as if a layer of protection, because she believed that Tan Ji could shelter Qi Zhang.

Why is this happening?

Even the way she looked at him was pure and only beautiful yearning.

Tan Ji was a little puzzled.

She hopes that he is good, this arrogant and willful girl, expects him to live well?

"Jiao Niang, you let me." When you say kiss, do you mean you?

Tan Ji said this very hesitantly, and before he finished a sentence, he swallowed it again when he saw the pair of eyes cast by Sheng Jiaojiao.

He hasn't forgotten her domineering and arrogance, the last time Niu Ju happened to make her very unhappy, if he really wants to say kiss, if he doesn't choose her, I'm afraid that she will be angry with him again.

Yes, she said that he deserves a good girl, but in the eyes of a proud and self-conscious person like Sheng Jiaojiao, who is better in this world besides her?

Jiao Niang has been pampered since she was a child, and she is different from ordinary women, and it is excellent to marry her as a lady.

But if he did come to kiss her, would she answer?

Tan Ji thought about it for a while, and when he came back to his senses, he felt that his scalp was numb, and he didn't dare to continue.

He was afraid that if he asked her too bluntly, he would annoy her again.

He was so scared of her.

"What, I don't finish talking."

Sheng Jiaojiao glanced at Tan Ji, and when she saw him pursing her mouth, she knew that he refused to say any more.

So, Sheng Jiaojiao could only stand up,

"Okay, you can split these and these into such long and short strips in a moment, and I'll go find a book to read."

She gestured, feeling that it was boring to sit, Tan Ji had always been like a saw-billed gourd, and she couldn't talk at all.

simply went back to his room, found a book to come out, sat on the stump, and waited for Tan Ji to finish his work while reading.

That day, Tan Ji wanted to laugh when he saw it.

He didn't bother her to read, but only two or three times beside him, cutting the chopped wooden strips into the way she wanted.

The shadow of the tree above his head swayed in the sunlight, he slowly stopped the knife in his hand, and as soon as he raised his eyes, he saw Sheng Jiaojiao's side face reading quietly.

There was a dark green shadow, swaying slightly on her face, and she raised her other hand and turned a page with her white fingertips.

Unconsciously, Tan Ji looked at Sheng Jiaojiao like this for a long time.

She didn't notice it, her attention was all on the scroll in her hand.

Listening to Qi Zhang, when he became a general in the future, he wanted to build a school for his sister Jiaojiao'er.

That must be built, a woman like Sheng Jiaojiao who likes to read should stay in such a place, be accompanied by books every day, live a quiet and far-reaching life, and not be contaminated with any turbidity in the world.

Tan Ji secretly thought about it, if he has the ability in the future, he should also do some effort for Sheng Jiaojiao's school.

A good son protects his family and defends the country, and the blood-stained battlefield is not for such a woman, creating a quiet and peaceful pure land where she can live with self-respect and self-respect?

"Sister!"

Qi Huan's voice recklessly broke into the forest, Sheng Jiaojiao was startled, put down the scroll in her hand, and turned her head to look in the direction where the voice came from.

Tan Ji frowned slightly, picked up the knife in his hand again, and sharpened the wooden strip.

Qi Huan's figure ran down the dirt slope behind the forest, burrowed into the sparse forest, and panted:

"Sister, the mule was bought, and she said that she would send it to us in the evening, a total of five heads, this price."

He raised a few fingers and looked at Tan Ji again,

"Brother Halberd."

Tan Ji nodded, put down the wooden strip that had been cut in his hand, looked at Sheng Jiaojiao again, and said:

"It's all done, I'll go to the north of the county tomorrow, and I'll work hard for you in the next few days."

Sheng Jiaojiao smiled at Tan Ji, hooked her lips slightly, put her hands holding the scroll behind her back, and said softly:

"Triumphant."

She knew what he was going to do in the north of the county.

Go get rich!

Tan Ji clenched his fists with both hands, and bowed his hands to Sheng Jiaojiao, the movements were short and neat, which was a salute to the generals to people.

Qi Huan, who was standing behind Sheng Jiaojiao, returned a salute in place of Sister A, which was also short and neat.

(End of chapter)